Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be captured by an invader once New York had fallen, as it must fall if potent defenses are not maintained. Knowing that an oldtime war-dog's growling is often interpreted as senile jingoism, and to give his hardware-headed hearers an indisputably sound reason for wanting to see their country more heavily armed, Major-General Bullard also advanced the following argument for supporting the Cruiser Bill now pending in Congress...
...scope the story of the development of America, the definition of its powers. "O America, because you build for mankind, I build for you." Thus did Composer Bloch quote from Walt Whitman on the flyleaf of his score. Then for the first movement, under the head "1620," come sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come in the second movement dated for the Civil...
...Cinema. The two largest organizations in British cinema last week merged to form a $70,000,000 unit controlling some 300 British theatres. Gaumont British Corporation acquired control of Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd. Gaumont has been both producer and exhibitor; Provincial is solely an exhibition chain. Gaumont has a sound-picture device, called the "British acoustics system." There is also an Anglo-German "talkie," better than British "acoustics," comparable with the U.S. talking picture machines. Either British acoustics or the Anglo-German mechanism will presumably be installed in the Gaumont houses, to the exclusion of U.S. sound pictures...
When the organ sounds its joyous diapason, Cardinal O'Connell will listen with the ears of a notable composer. In a basement he found the oldest Christian church in Rome. In another basement likewise, when he was a student at St. Charles College, Maryland, he found a broken-down melodeon. Some of the pipes would sound, however, and he sat there playing, lost to everything else, including his classes...
...become a creed with many and the Concerto had its premiere in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony. The third came last week. This time the orchestra was the Philharmonic-Symphony, the composition An American in Paris. It was a picture with sound effects. Deems Taylor, Gershwin's friend, summarized the scenario...